EFFINGHAM, SC (WBTW) – The suspect who escaped from a Florence County Sheriff’s Deputy cruiser Thursday morning has been captured, confirms Major Michael Nunn.
Florence County Sheriff’s deputies searched Thursday morning for a suspect who escaped from their vehicle. Major Nunn with the sheriff’s office says deputies were bring the suspect, identified as Mack Laron Singletary, 27, of Johnsonville, to the Florence County Detention Center when he fled from their vehicle around 9 a.m.
Major Nunn says narcotics agents, along with FCSO SWAT executed a search warrant at a home on Rosewood Drive in Johnsonville early Thursday morning. During the raid, agents arrested Singletary after discovering bindles of heroin and a small amount of marijuana.
Singletary was handcuffed and transported to the detention center, and when the patrol vehicle pulled up outside of the facility, Major Nunn says the suspect “managed to open the door to the vehicle and flee on foot into a wooded area nearby.” The deputy attempted to chase Singletary, but wasn’t able to catch him. The deputy was later treated for exhaustion at a local hospital.
SLED and FCSO helicopters were used in addition to tracking dogs during the search. A siren was sounded during the search, signaling for residents nearby to stay inside as officials searched for an escaped suspect in the area.
Nunn says that a five mile perimeter was set-up near the Florence County Detention Center in Effingham and that deputies and K9 units were able to apprehend the suspect just after 1 p.m.
